I came across this site with a ton of amazing sets of royalty free icons (free for both personal and commercial use). They are PNG but could easily be converted for use in MapPoint or any other mapping program. http://icons.mysitemyway.com/

Here’s an example of a set of transportation icons — http://icons.mysitemyway.com/simple-red-glossy-icons-transport-travel/ You can see they have a number of aircraft, vehicles, ships, and even bicycles. As mapping software is often using for transportation projects, this might be a good set for readers of Custom Map Symbols. If you know of other good resources like Icons Etc or want to share your favorite Map Symbols sites or resources, please post as a comment below. Happy Mapping!

Although the focus of this blog is about MapPoint symbols and how to import MapPoint custom symbols and resources for MapPoint symbols, we will also discuss custom map symbols in general – How Google Map Custom Symbols can be converted for use with MapPoint and Bing Maps for Enterprise, and many other topics. Also, MapInfo Professional 10.0 custom symbol technology and fonts will also be discussed.

Welcome to this blog about custom map symbols for Microsoft MapPoint. Use of custom map symbols can greatly enhance just about any map or MapPoint application by customizing the look of all depicted locations. Custom map symbols can also be used for logos and other map paraphenalia that occurs around the edges of the map.

We will discuss details on how to create and import your own custom map symbols as well as point you to resources around the web for additional map symbols and more resources for custom pushpin symbols in MapPoint.